FUNGI

Some fungi are:

The non-motile cells belong to the kingdom Fungi. The cell walls of these non-motile cells are made of chitin. Fungi are heterotrophic organisms. The only difference between other

heterotrophic animals and fungi is that fungi digest and then ingest the food. Fungi releases enzymes on the body of the other living things and thrive on them.
There is no embryonic stage for fungi. A fungus develops from spores,

and are both sexual and asexual.

 Though most of the fungi are single cellular, most of the fungi species

grow as multi-cellular filaments called hyphae. The hyphae form a mycelium.

An interesting characteristic of fungi is that like a plant, fungi too have

an alternation of generations.
The cytoplasmic ultrastructure of fungi is similar to plant cells. However,

they differ significantly in their structures and their organelles. The fungi store their food in the form of glycogen.

 Fungus is not dependent on light and can grow in any

direction. They have the ability to invade the interior of a substrate with absorptive filaments. Some argue that a fungus belongs to the animal kingdom, while there are some who think fungi should belong to plants. However, the recent molecular evidence suggests fungi are closely related to animals than to the plants.

Types of Fungi
Chytridiomycota

can be found all over the world and are commonly known as chytrids. The name is derived from the Greek wordchytridion, meaning 'little pot', which refers to the pot-like structure that contain the unreleased spores.

 Blastocladiomycota

were initially a part of the clade that constituted the phylum Chytridiomycota. However, recently on the basis of the results of molecular data and characteristics of their ultrastructures, they are placed as a sister clade to Zygomycota and Glomeromycota.

 Neocallimastigomycota

Initially Neocallimastigomycota also belonged to the Chytridiomycota phylum. The species of fungi that belong to this phylum are generally found in the digestive system of the herbivorous animals and they are anaerobic, i.e. they can thrive in the absence of oxygen.

 Zygomycota

Most of the fungi belonging to the phylum Zygomycota are saprobes. They are commonly known as sugar or pin molds. They can reproduce both sexually and asexually.

 Glomeromycota

This phylum contain approximately 200 species of fungi, which mainly reproduce asexually. They mainly draw nutrition from the plants and form arbuscular mycorrhizas with the higher plants.

 Ascomycota

are also known as sac fungi. It is the largest phylum of fungi, that contain more than 30,000 species. They exhibit sexual mode of reproduction and produce ascospores in a sac like structure called ascus.

 Basidiomycota

The members of the phylum basidiomycota are also called club fungi or basidiomycetes. They produce basidiospores for the purpose of reproduction.